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This week on the bookish internet

  • WALES HAS A SKELETON CHRISTMAS HORSE THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED WITH POETRY. (LitHub)
  • Jane Austen’s readers hilariously come to her defense when someone says something stupid about her on Twitter. (The AV Club)
  • It’s the season of hope and, to inspire the writers among you, Emily Temple has classic books and best-sellers that were rejected dozens of times before they were published. (LitHub)
  • After nearly 2,000 years, Rome’s city council has pardoned Ovid for whatever it was he did to get himself exiled by Augustus Caesar. (Moby Lives)
  • Kiran Manral writes about her battle against publishers who want her to stick to one genre. (Scroll.in)
  • Lorraine Berry writes about the appeal of lost books. (Signature)